ThinkstockAmerican Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) announced it will lay off 5,400 people, due in part to a slowdown in its travel business. The firm will take a fourth-quarter charge. As far as…
thinkstockA Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 operated by ANA develops a crack in the cockpit glass. (Reuters) American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) will cut 5,400 jobs and take a charge in its…
ThinkstockAmerican Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) is not usually the first of the financial DJIA stocks to report its earnings in the quarter. The credit card issuer just announced its earnings along with…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockBest CEO lists can be based on dozens of factors. For public companies, the best metric is usually share price. It is hard for chief executives to be considered very good if…
Nearly half the respondents in a recent study said they would consider getting a mortgage through eBay Inc.’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) PayPal. And one of three would consider a mortgage from Wal-Mart Stores…
flickr / eschipulThere is a nearly endless number of criteria that measure how well CEOs perform, whether they are paid fairly, and what metrics should be used for determining chief executive compensation.…
Mark Hirschey / Wikimedia CommonsBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings. Many changes had been made in the June quarter…
thinkstockToday is potentially a make or break day when it comes to a corporate voice on how to avert SOME of the issues with the coming fiscal cliff. Leaders of labor got…
It was twenty-five years ago today that the 1987 stock market crash came. Fortunes were lost on that day, but fortunes were also made in the aftermath. The NYSE was said to…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and really never got on track the entire day. The lower opening was likely a reaction to China’s weakest quarterly GDP growth…
American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) rose just over 1% ahead of earnings and now it is giving some of the small gain back. The credit card provider reported earnings rose 1% to…
Jon C. Ogg The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning, and never really got untracked all day. Spanish 10-year bond yields fell 28 basis points to around 5.51%, while Spain again demurred…
Many finance ministers in Europe believe that Spain can avoid a bailout. (Reuters) Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) uses a pay-per-performance deal to help it secure premium content. (Reuters) Cities such as Seattle…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning as banks and bond markets were closed in the U.S. The World Bank cut its forecast for Chinese economic growth in 2012…
Wikimedia Creative Commons, JohnnyMrNinjaThe stock market is down Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.33%, the Nasdaq down 0.62% and the S&P 500 down 0.46%. Today’s winners include a telecommunications…
